Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ577568
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1998
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Argumentative Strategies in American and Japanese English.
Kamimura, Taeko; Oi, Kyoko
World Englishes, v17 n3 p307-23 Nov 1998
A study examined differences in argumentative strategies in Japanese and American English by analyzing English essays on capital punishment written by 22 American high school seniors and 30 Japanese college sophomores. Differences were found in the organizational patterns, content and use of rational appeals, preference for type of diction, and preferred cultural tokens used in the discourse. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Essays, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Variation, Logical Thinking, North American English, Persuasive Discourse, Rhetoric, Sociocultural Patterns, Text Structure, Written Language
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Japan
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